You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.
ALAIN PROSTIt’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
More Alain Prost Quotes
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When I look fast, I’m not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.
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Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!
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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.
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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.
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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. But that’s motor racing.
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So I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.
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I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can’t see that from the outside.
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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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People don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.
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